With launch season in full swing, the next team to kick off their 2013 campaign was the CAME IODA Racing project. The team, run by former Aprilia supremo Giampiero Sacchi, will field two riders in MotoGP and one in Moto2. In the premier class, Danilo Petrucci returns to the team once again for his second year. He will be joined by former 250cc man Lukas Pesek, the Czech rider having found the prerequisite funds to secure a slot alongside Petrucci. Frenchman Johann Zarco will contest the Moto2 season for the team. All three riders will be using Suter chassis, Petrucci and Pesek on Suter BMW machines, using the spec Magneti Marelli electronics, while Zarco has the championship-winning Suter Moto2 chassis used by Marc Marquez in 2012.

Below is the press release issued by the team:

CAME IODARACING TEAM TAKES ITS COVER OFF ITS 2013 MOTOGP CHALLENGE

CAME and IODARACING PROJECT unveiled their team to take part to the MOTO 2 and MOTOGP classes of the 2013 World Championship at their factory in Dosson di Casier on Wednesday 30th January. .

The partnership between the company based in Veneto, a leader in automation systems and access controls, and the factory in Terni continues in the best possible way. Both enterprises will face together the most important motorcycling world championship. A Made-in-Italy challenge.

Big news in the CAME IODARACING MOTOGP team where Czech rider Lukas Pesek will debut in the higher class at the side of the most strengthen Danilo Petrucci, riding the IODA-SUTER BMW. Lukas Pesek is at his first year in MOTOGP but has an outstanding past in 125 and 250 cc.

New riders and new bikes in MOTO 2 too. French rider Joahnn Zarco will be the new bearer of the Italian team, which will race a world champion bike, the Suter which was the one of World Champion Mark Màrquez.

Petrucci and Pesek will take part to both the official MOTOGP training sessions in Sepang, and to the special Magneti Marelli ECU testing sessions to take place in Malaysia from the 3rd to the 7th of February, while Zarco will initiate his new adventure with Ioda in Valencia, from the 12 to the 14 of February and in Jerez, from the 19 to the 21st of February. Both teams will take part to the official IRTA testing sessions to be held in Jerez in March.

Paolo Menuzzo, Presidente di Camegroup S.p.A.: "Sponsoring sport with large audiences at an international level as MOTOGP and our partnership with Dorna have turned to be the right strategy to spin our business. Once again MOTOGP will be the perfect international stage to promote our offer and the reliance of our services ”.

Giampiero Sacchi, CEO, Iodaracing Project srl: "Our great challenge in MOTOGP goes on. Last year’s results have lead us to place a second bike in this class. Lukas will be at the side of Danilo, while we have hired Johann Zarco, a young and talented rider for our MOTO2 team. I take this opportunity to welcome our two new sponsors B-Pure and Anonimo Orologi, who have joined us in this adventure. A very special thanks goes to Came and BMW, for their support and confidence.”.

Danilo Petrucci, MotoGP rider: "I am very happy to be here again. I am glad that Giampiero Sacchi has put his confidence on me for two years. This is my second season in MotoGP, after a very hard year for everybody, but very useful too. I wish to thank Iodaracing, Suter and BMW for their support and their hard work. I wish to say that I am doing my very best and I will keep on doing it, and hope we will be awarded with the results we all deserve ”.

Lukas Pesek, MotoGP rider: "It will be a very a hard season not only because I am returning to the World Championship after two years, but because it is my first year in MOTOGP. I am doing my best to be in a perfect shape for Sepang and am very excited to test my Ioda Suter. Anyhow I am facing this season with great enthusiasm and full commitment. I take this opportunity to thank in a very special way Giampiero Sacchi and Came for this great opportunity, and all my tifosi in the Czec Republic for their fondness and support ”.

Johann Zarco, Moto2 rider: "I am very happy to be part of one of the best teams in the World Championship. I have had the chance to confirm the proven skills of their technicians already in Valencia during the testing sessions right after the last race. I have been to Terni a few weeks ago and have visited their impressive race department and realized that everybody at Iodaracing works with total commitment to racing. I don’t deny that our main goal for this season is to fight for the top positions and for me to do my very best at all occasions. We will soon face the official tests where I will work hard to find a good feeling with my new Suter. I don’t know my bike in deep yet but I felt a strong sensation when I first rode it in the tests in Valencia. There is something which has to be said. Since I am here with the sole intention of fighting for victory, I want to be on a good shape from the very first race in Qatar”